Aquatic Faunal Survey of the Lower Amazon

亚马逊下游水生动物群调查

• 批准号: 1146374
• 负责人: William Crampton
• 金额: $ 84万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-15 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1146374&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Aquatic; Faunal; Survey; Lower; Amazon

A team of biodiversity specialists will inventory the free-living aquatic sponges, flatworms, annelid worms, mollusks, crustaceans, and fishes of the freshwater habitats of the lower Amazon basin of Brazil. This region is remarkably poorly sampled in comparison to other parts of the basin, and remains one of the last frontiers for scientific discovery in the tropics. Investigators from institutions in the U.S., Brazil and other countries will undertake a multi-habitat, multi-season series of expeditions to collect, photograph, identify, catalog, and analyze the aquatic fauna. The project will yield large geo-referenced collections of specimens, produce on-line and printed faunal guides, generate species descriptions, taxonomic revisions, and synthetic studies of the ecology and evolution of Amazonian aquatic animals, and will provide unique opportunities for student training.The collections, data, and products generated by this project will serve as a lasting resource for understanding how the extraordinary diversity of the Amazon is generated and maintained, how resilient this diversity is to human pressure, and how it can be protected. Project results will therefore be valuable to professionals in fisheries and natural resource management, ecology, biogeography, paleontology, geology, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and anthropology. This project will also benefit people of the Amazon whose livelihoods are dependent upon aquatic resources, and members of the public worldwide who wish to learn more about the Amazon?s fascinating yet threatened aquatic life.

一个生物多样性专家小组将对巴西亚马逊河下游淡水生境中的自由生活的水生海绵、扁虫、环节虫、软体动物、甲壳类动物和鱼类进行清点。与盆地的其他部分相比，该地区的采样率非常低，并且仍然是热带科学发现的最后前沿之一。来自美国各机构的调查人员，巴西和其他国家将进行一系列多栖息地、多季节的考察，以收集、拍摄、识别、编目和分析水生动物。该项目将产生大量地理参考标本集，制作在线和印刷的动物群指南，生成物种描述、分类学修订以及亚马逊水生动物生态和进化的综合研究，并将为学生提供独特的机会培训。收集、数据、这个项目产生的产品将作为一个持久的资源，用于了解亚马逊的非凡多样性是如何产生和维持的，这种多样性对人类压力的适应能力，以及如何保护它。因此，项目成果将对渔业和自然资源管理、生态学、地理学、古生物学、地质学、进化生物学、考古学和人类学的专业人员有价值。该项目还将使生活依赖于水生资源的亚马逊人民以及希望更多地了解亚马逊的世界各地的公众受益。令人着迷但又受到威胁的水生生物。